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AN EDWARDIAN SEASON
Written by John S. Goodall. Illustrated by John S. Goodall.
Stock no. 1406630
Published by Macmillan London Limited. 1st 1979. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The fourth of Goodall's excursions into the Edwardian era follows the course of the London 'Season'. An enchanting evocation of a vanished age. Double-page colour spreads say it all without the need for text. Maroon boards, gilt titles and border. 5.5 x 7". ISBN: 0333264584. A little bumping to spine and corners. Light mark to top of rear board. End papers lightly browned. Contents very good. Dustwrapper is a little edge worn. Spine and folds sunned. Red mark to top of rear panel on verso which corresponds to mark on rear panel.

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FIRST STEPS
Written by Mabel A. Marsh. Illustrated by Rosa C. Petherick; Angusine Macgregor; J.H. Hartley; Florence Hardy; Harry B. Neilson; et al..
Stock no. 1505974
Published by Henry Frowde; Hodder & Stoughton. Slightly better than good condition.

A Picture Reading Book for Little Folks. Red cloth spine. Pictorial front cover showing a mother in a chair reading this book to her little toddler, white border. Colour and b/w illustrations. Spine bumped, heavy wear to corners and some wear to cover edges. Front joint split for half its length. One hinge badly cracked. Name erased from front pastedown and belongs to box. All lower page corners bumped. Light browning to endpapers. Contents generally clean.

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JANE AND JEREMY
Written by Anne Rochester. Illustrated by Anne Rochester.
Stock no. 1505094
Published by Standard Art Book Co. Ltd.. Slightly better than good condition.

A Puck Book. Pictorial stiff card wraps 9.5 x 7". Pretty, full page, colour plates with minimal text below. Damage to card covering spine, quite a bit missing. Wear to corners and cover edges. Creasing to both lower corners. Covers slightly grubby. Puck book symbol on title page has been scribbled over. Illustrations are still bright and pages are clean. Small brown spot inside rear cover.

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THE MIDNIGHT CIRCUS
Written by Peter Collington. Illustrated by Peter Collington.
Stock no. 2115795
Published by Heinemann. 1st 1992. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. A beautiful story without words. ISBN: 0434933252. Light browning to page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with some uneven browning; small piece has top layer of wrapper (laminate) missing.

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WHO IS HIDING?
No author listed. Illustrated by Grahame Corbett.
Stock no. 2114147
Published by Methuen Walker Books. 1982. Very good condition.

Square format. Board book. NO text. ISBN: 0416061907. Spine is bumped and faded. Some browning. A few indentation marks to a couple of pages internally!

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THE GREAT FLOOD
Written by Peter Spier. Illustrated by Peter Spier.
Stock no. 2112582
Published by World's Work Ltd.. 1979. Very good condition.

A picture books with minimal text. Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0437765121. 2nd impression. Spine a bit faded. Some browning to covers. Bookplate to half-title page. Light page browning.

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MERRY MOMENTS PICTURE BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by H.G.C. Marsh Lambert.
Stock no. 1501870
Published by Ward Lock & Co Ltd.. Very good condition.

A Rainbow Picture Book. Pictorial front board shows small boy playing with toy horse, small girl stood beside him. Tan coloured spine and rear cover. Sixteen plates in full colour and many other illustrations. A few rhymes and lines of text. Spine, corners and cover edges bumped and worn. Grubby marks to rear cover. Front cover lightly scuffed. Endpapers browned. Both hinges just starting to crack at towards top. One hinge cracked. A few marks and a little foxing but contents generally clean.

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PICTURE-BOOK WORLD
Written by Bettina Hurlimann; Brian W. Alderson.
Stock no. 1705877
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1968. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Modern picture-books for children from twenty-four countries with a bio-biographical supplement by Elizabeth Waldmann. Colour illustrations. 216 pages. Board edges worn with bumped corners. Ink stamps to prelims. Wrapper faded and grubby with edge-creasing and chipping.

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HENRY DISCOVERS THE COUNTRYSIDE
No author listed. Illustrated by Caroline Mills.
Stock no. 1107572
Published by Foxwood Publishing Limited. 1st 1977. Very good condition.

Turn-over Picture Books. NO TEXT. Spiral bound cardwraps. Each page is divided into three parts which can be turned over to give many different picture combinations. ISBN: 0904897478. Some light browning and creasing to covers. Contents still in excellent working order.

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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF PETRONELLA PIG
No author listed. Illustrated by Tatjana Hauptmann.
Stock no. 1107358
Published by Ernest Benn. 1st 1979. Very good condition.

Large square format. Matt pictorial boards. Follow Petronella Pig's day through the full-page colour pictures. Some pages shaped and cut-out to provide 3D scenes. A picture book with no text. A delightful book. ISBN: 0510000460. Spine and corners are bumped and worn. Some browning to covers. Name in ink to front endpaper. All pages appear in excellent order.

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MAD SUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Written by Ruth Brown. Illustrated by Ruth Brown.
Stock no. 1305240
Published by Andersen Press. 1st 1998. Fine condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0862648033. SIGNED by author to title-page.

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THE BIRD TREE
Written by Frans Van Anrooy. Illustrated by Jaap Tol.
Stock no. 822057
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1967. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Christmas for Mark at Grandma's house was going to be a drab affair with no money to decorate the Christmas Tree until the birds came to help. A picture book for children. Large format. White cloth spine with no title, white pictorial paper boards with black title to front. Colour illustrations throughout. Minimal text. Covers clean and bright as are the contents. Pictorial wrapper is lightly edge-worn and grubby.

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